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For their personal involvement working the members to get this done and getting us to where we are. thank you, gentlemen. today was a big day but it is just one step in this process. an important step. we still have a lot of work to do to get this signed into law. i know that our friends in the senate are eager to get to work. they are. we are going to see that work through. do you know why were going to see it through? the issues are too important. the stakes are just too high. the problems fac...

Still, they are not where democrats believed and said, six, seven years ago they would be once it was implemented. i got to think part of that is just you keep having headlines like we got this week out of iowa, you got the biggest insurer in that state moving out. youve had stories like that around the country. you had the premium spikes just before last novembers election. ive wondered how big an impact -- we talked so much about comey, i wonder how much effect the premium spikes had, the news...

Jim. we just have developed a bond. this has really brought the republican party together. as much as weve come up with a really incredible health care plan, this has brought the republican party together. were going to get this finished and then were going, as you know, we put our tax plan in. a massive tax cut. the biggest tax cut in the history of our company. i used to say, the biggest since ronald reagan. now it is bigger than that. also, pure tax reform. so were going to get that done next...

Face. i agree the politics are tough because it is peoples lives. to stand back and not take political step after you ran against this in these three or four elections would have been political suicide. thats the suicide here. the right thing is to do the right thing. yes. it is republican votes but jennifer needs to remember, obamacare passed with democrat votes only. >> but once you get something through, youre playing defense. when you succeed and you accept responsibility for something, the ...

The republicans obviously have been running against obamacare. obamacare never became as popular as democrats said in 2010 it would be once it was implemented. you got news this wheek oeek ou iowa, pretty much no competition left in that state. the news of the premium spikes last fall. this idea of, hey, democrats can go after the republicans and what theyre passing today but theyre vulnerable on obamacare. what do you say to that? >> well, first of all, its no surprise to me that when they alre...

With no plans on the obama market at all. what kind of protection is obamacare if there are no plans to choose from? and this is a trend that were seeing all across the country. the truth is this law has failed and collapsing. premiums are skyrocketing. it is getting worse and out of control. we have to put in place a real margaret place with lower premiums for families. thats what the american health care act is all about. it makes health care more affordable. it takes care of our most vulnerab...

Because it wont get through senate. >> i talked at length with majority leader mcconnell. i think he knows the strikes high. my feeling is that weve had three elections where obamacare was the number one issue for republican voters and they wouldnt have majority in either the house or the senate if wasnt for their pushing back on obamacare. i think it is important to remember that there is the results of these elections, and the american people, out of millions of americans had who have worse he...

Or not that they wont have very many choices. theyll have no choice. how do you care for pre-existing conditions when theres no care at all? or you read the paper yesterday and you look at aetna pulling out of virginia or ten ten next year with 16 counties with no care. or what about those families that paid into those 23 co-ops that obamacare created. 18 have collapsed. the only answer that this american government gives them is a penalty. simply look at the facts. more people took the penalty ...

Billion is a small fraction of thatnd estimate its only going to take care of thousands of people, not the millions it needed to. >> let me ask you quickly, too, about the status quo. the case you heard from paul ryan, house speaker, today, hey, look, we have to do this because gu obamacare is collapsing. story out of iowa, big insurer pulling out of the state, most counties wont have any insurer now. we had stories of this elsewhere, premium strikes, number of states last fall, major, major spi...

Every question when the team between them, i put beyond any team we ever had. i give you the majority whip. >> today we took first step toward rescuing families of the failures of obamacare. weve been seeing it play out across the country. youve seen families struggling from every part of country. sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every year. when we had the 27 1/2 hour mark-up to pass this bill out of committee, we had a long and important discussion about health care po...